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<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">Hi there,</div>
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<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">I'm building a dynamic engine to support a custom AES hardware module that I've implemented in FPGA logic<b>**</b>, but after reading all available documentation, and pouring over the source code, I'm still very confused
about the following two things.....</div>
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<li><b>How and where I should define the </b>
<div><b>EVP_[En/De]cryptInit_ex(..), EVP_[En/De]cryptUpdate(..), and EVP_[En/De]cryptFinal_ex(..)</b></div>
<b>functions in my Engine code? </b><br>
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<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">Prior to this, I successfully built an engine for my sha256 accelerator, and now I'm trying to follow the same steps for AES. For sha256, the EVP_MD structure allowed me to declare pointers to my init, update, and
final functions. This all worked flawlessly. <br>
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<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">Now, when I'm building the AES engine, I see that the EVP_CIPHER structure does not have these pointers (init, update, final), but instead has a pointer to init_key and do_cipher functions. However, the EVP encryption
interface still has these functions defined. <br>
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<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">AFAIK (and please correct me if this is wrong) my init_key function is invoked by the EVP interface when I call the EVP_[En/De]cryptInit_ex function, and the do_cipher function is called upon EVP_[En/De]cryptUpdate.
But how should I handle the EVP_[En/De]cryptFinal functions? Should I not be implementing them in my engine? Or am I missing something here....</div>
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<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><b>2. Does the EVP interface handle padding when a dynamic engine is involved? Or is it up to me to implement a padding structure within the engine itself? If the latter is the case, then I think the answer to the
previous questions will help me figure out exactly where to implement it. </b></div>
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<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">So to recap, two questions: <b><br>
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<li>How can I explicitly define which operations in my engine happen when the EVP_[En/De]cryptInit_ex(..), EVP_[En/De]cryptUpdate(..), and EVP_[En/De]cryptFinal_ex(..) functions are called from a driver program?</li><li>Does my engine need to handle padding the input data upon encryption, and stripping the padding when decrypting? Or does the EVP API handle the padding for me, and I only need to worry about the core AES algorithm on the arbitrary input data? (for reference,
I'd like to just use standard PKCS padding)</li></ol>
<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">Thanks in advance, <br>
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<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">- Brett <br>
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<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><b>** I'm using the Xilinx Zynq SoC, so I can create custom hardware in the programmable logic, and then interact with it from software running on the processor through the memory map, just like any peripheral....details
irrelevant</b><b><br>
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